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Nicolaus Copernicus
Born
February 19, 1473
Toruń, Royal Prussia
Died
May 24, 1543
Frombork (Frauenburg), Warmia, (Poland)
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Poland, Italy
Mathematician, Astronomer
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Cracow Academy (today the Jagiellonian University)
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The first modern formulation of a heliocentric (sun-centered) theory of
the solar system.
Children
none (cleric)
Religion
Roman Catholic
Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 – May
24, 1543) was an astronomer who provided the first
modern formulation of a heliocentric (sun-centered)
theory of the solar system in his epochal book, De
revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the
Revolutions of the Celestial Spheres). Copernicus
was born in 1473 in the city of Toruń (Thorn), in
Royal Prussia, an autonomous province of the
Kingdom of Poland. He was educated in Poland
and Italy, and spent most of his working life in
Frombork (Frauenburg), Warmia, where he died in
1543.
Copernicus was one of the great polymaths of the
Renaissance. He was a mathematician,
astronomer, jurist, physician, classical scholar,
governor, administrator, diplomat, economist, and
soldier. Amid his extensive responsibilities, he
treated astronomy as an avocation. However, his
formulation of how the sun rather than the earth is
at the center of the universe is considered one of
the most important scientific hypotheses in history.
It came to mark the starting point of modern
astronomy and, in turn, of modern science,
encouraging young astronomers, scientists and
scholars to take a more skeptical attitude toward
established dogma.
Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei (February 15, 1564 – January 8, 1642) was an Italian physicist, astronomer, astrologer and philosopher who
is closely associated with the scientific revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope, a variety of
astronomical observations, the first and second laws of motion, and effective support for Copernicanism. He has been
referred to as the "father of modern astronomy," as the "father of modern physics," and as the "father of science." The work
of Galileo is considered to be a significant break from that of Aristotle. In addition, his conflict with the Roman Catholic
Church is taken as a major early example of the conflict of authority and freedom of thought, particularly with science, in
Western society.
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler
(December 27, 1571 – November 15, 1630), a key figure in the scientific revolution, was a German mathematician,
astronomer, astrologer, and an early writer of science fiction stories. He is best known for his laws of planetary motion,
based on his works Astronomia nova, Harmonice Mundi and the textbook Epitome of Copernican Astronomy.
Through his career Kepler was a mathematics teacher at a Graz seminary school (later the University of Graz, Austria),
an assistant to Tycho Brahe, court mathematician to Emperor Rudolf II, mathematics teacher in Linz, Austria, and court
astrologer to General Wallenstein. He also did fundamental work in the field of optics and helped to legitimize the
telescopic discoveries of his contemporary Galileo Galilei.
He is sometimes referred to as "the first theoretical astrophysicist", although Carl Sagan also referred to him as the last
scientific astrologer.
Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton at 46 in Godfrey Kneller's 1689 portrait
Born
4 January [O.S. 25 Dec. 1642] 1643
Woolsthorpe-by-Colsterworth, Lincolnshire,
England
Died
31 March [O.S. 20 Mar.] 1727
Kensington, London
Residence
England
Nationality
English
Field
Mathematics, physics,
Alchemy, astronomy,
Natural philosophy
Institution
University of Cambridge
Alma Mater
University of Cambridge
Known for
Gravitation, optics,
Calculus, mechanics
Notable Prizes
Religion
Knighthood
Prophetic Unitarianism,
Church of England
Sir Isaac Newton, FRS (4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727) [OS: 25
December 1642 – 20 March 1727][1] was an English physicist,
mathematician, astronomer, alchemist, and natural philosopher who is
generally regarded as one of the greatest scientists in history. Newton
wrote the Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, in which he
described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion, laying the
groundwork for classical mechanics. By deriving Kepler's laws of planetary
motion from this system, he was the first to show that the motion of objects
on Earth and of celestial bodies are governed by the same set of natural
laws. The unifying and deterministic power of his laws was integral to the
scientific revolution and the advancement of heliocentrism. He also was a
devout Christian, studied the Bible daily and wrote more on religion than
on natural science.
Although by the calendar in use at the time of his birth he was born on
Christmas Day 1642, the date of 4 January 1643 is used because this is
the Gregorian calendar date.
Among other scientific discoveries, Newton realised that the spectrum of
colours observed when white light passes through a prism is inherent in
the white light and not added by the prism (as Roger Bacon had claimed in
the thirteenth century), and notably argued that light is composed of
particles. He also developed a law of cooling, describing the rate of cooling
of objects when exposed to air. He enunciated the principles of
conservation of momentum and angular momentum. Finally, he studied the
speed of sound in air, and voiced a theory of the origin of stars. Despite
this renown in mainstream science, Newton spent much of his time
working on alchemy rather than physics, writing considerably more papers
on the former than the latter.[2]
Newton played a major role in the development of calculus, famously
sharing credit with Gottfried Leibniz. He also made contributions to other
areas of mathematics, for example the generalised binomial theorem. The
mathematician and mathematical physicist Joseph Louis Lagrange (1736–
1813), often said that Newton was the greatest genius that ever existed,
and once added "and the most fortunate, for we cannot find more than
once a system of the world to establish."
Gottfried Leibniz
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (also Leibnitz or von Leibniz)[1]
(July 1 (June 21 Old Style) 1646 – November 14, 1716)
was a German polymath who wrote mostly in French and
Latin.
Educated in law and philosophy, and serving as factotum
to two major German noble houses (one becoming the
British royal family while he served it), Leibniz played a
major role in the European politics and diplomacy of his
day. He occupies an equally large place in both the history
of philosophy and the history of mathematics. He invented
calculus independently of Newton, and his notation is the
one in general use since. He also invented the binary
system, foundation of virtually all modern computer
architectures. In philosophy, he is most remembered for
optimism, i.e., his conclusion that our universe is, in a
restricted sense, the best possible one God could have
made. He was, along with René Descartes and Baruch
Spinoza, one of the three great 17th century rationalists,
but his philosophy also both looks back to the Scholastic
tradition and anticipates modern logic and analysis.
Leibniz also made major contributions to physics and
technology, and anticipated notions that surfaced much
later in biology, medicine, geology, probability theory,
psychology, knowledge engineering, and information
science. He also wrote on politics, law, ethics, theology,
history, and philology, even occasional verse. His
contributions to this vast array of subjects are scattered in
journals and in tens of thousands of letters and
unpublished manuscripts. To date, there is no complete
edition of Leibniz's writings, and a complete account of his
accomplishments is not yet possible.
Western Philosophers
17th-century philosophy
(Modern Philosophy)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Name:
Birth:
Death:
School/tradition:
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
July 1, 1646 (Leipzig, Germany)
November 14, 1716 (Hanover, Germany)
Rationalism
Main interests:
metaphysics, mathematics, science, epistemology, theodicy
Notable ideas:
calculus, monad, theodicy, optimism
Influences:
Plato, Aristotle, Ramon Llull, Scholastic philosophy, Descartes, Christiaan Huygens
Influenced:
Many later mathematicians, Christian Wolff, Immanuel Kant, Bertrand Russell, Abraham Robinson
Leonhard Euler
Leonhard Euler
Portrait of Leonhard Euler by Johann Georg Brucker.
Born
April 15, 1707
Basel, Switzerland
Died
September 18, 1783
St Petersburg, Russia
Residence
Switzerland, Russia, Germany
Nationality
Swiss
Field
Institution
Mathematics
Imperial Russian Academy of Sciences, Berlin Academy
Alma Mater
University of Basel
Known for
Analysis, number theory, graph theory
Religion
Calvinist
Leonhard Euler (Basel, Switzerland, April 15, 1707 – St
Petersburg, Russia, September 18, 1783) was a Swiss
mathematician and physicist. He developed important concepts and
established mathematical theorems in fields as diverse as calculus,
number theory and topology. He introduced the fundamental notion
of a mathematical function,[1] and set much of the modern
mathematical terminology: his two-volume Introductio in analysin
infinitorum (1748) established a lot of the notation for analysis.[2] He
is also renowned for his work in mechanics, optics and astronomy.
Euler is considered to be the preeminent mathematician of the 18th
century and one of the greatest of all time; he is also listed on the
Guinness Book of Records as the most prolific, with collected works
filling between 60 and 80 quarto volumes.[3] Euler was featured on
the Swiss 10-franc banknote[4] as well as numerous Swiss, German
and Russian stamps and had an asteroid (2002 Euler) named in his
honor.
The measure of his influence can be expressed by this quote often
attributed to Pierre-Simon Laplace: "Lisez Euler, lisez Euler, c'est
notre maître à tous." (Read Euler, read Euler, he is a master for us
all).[5]
Physics and Astronomy
Aside from succesfully applying his analytic tools to problems in
classical mechanics, Euler also applied these techniques to celestial
problems. His work in astronomy were recognized by a number of
Paris Academy Prizes over the course of his career. His
accomplishments include determining with great accuracy the orbits
of comets and other celestial bodies, understanding the nature of
comets and calculating the parallax of the sun. His calculations also
contributed to the development of accurate longitude tables [25]
In addition, Euler made important contributions in optics. He
disagreed with Newton's corpuscular theory of light in the Opticks,
which was then the prevailing theory. His 1740's papers on optics
helped ensure that the wave theory of light invented by Christian
Huygens would become the dominant mode of thought. [26]
Joseph Louis Lagrange
comte de l'Empire (January 25, 1736 – April 10, 1813; b. Turin, baptised in the name of
Giuseppe Lodovico Lagrangia) was an Italian-French mathematician and astronomer who
made important contributions to all fields of analysis and number theory and to classical
and celestial mechanics as arguably the greatest mathematician of the 18th century. It is
said that he was able to write out his papers complete without a single correction
required. Before the age of 20 he was professor of geometry at the royal artillery school
at Turin. By his mid-twenties he was recognized as one of the greatest living
mathematicians because of his papers on wave propagation and the maxima and minima
of curves. His greatest work, Mecanique Analytique (Analytical Mechanics) (4. ed., 2 vols.
Paris: Gauthier-Villars et fils, 1888-89. First Edition: 1788), was a mathematical
masterpiece and the basis for all later work in this field. On the recommendation of Euler
and D'Alembert, Lagrange succeeded the former as the director of mathematics at the
Berlin Academy. Under the First French Empire, Lagrange was made both a senator and
a count; he is buried in the Panthéon.
It was Lagrange who created the calculus of variations which was later expanded by
Weierstrass, solved the isoperimetrical problem on which the variational calculus is based
in part, and made some important discoveries on the tautochrone which would contribute
substantially to the then newly formed subject. Lagrange also established the theory of
differential equations, and provided many new solutions and theorems in number theory,
including Wilson's theorem. Lagrange's classic Theorie des fonctions analytiques laid
some of the foundations of group theory, anticipating Galois. Lagrange developed the
mean value theorem which led to a proof of the fundamental theorem of calculus, and a
proof of Taylor's theorem. Lagrange also invented the method of solving differential
equations known as variation of parameters, applied differential calculus to the theory of
probabilities and attained notable work on the solution of equations. He studied the threebody problem for the Earth, Sun, and Moon (1764) and the movement of Jupiter’s
satellites (1766), and in 1772 found the special-case solutions to this problem that are
now known as Lagrangian points. Above all, he reformulated Newtonian mechanics
creating what is today known as Lagrangian mechanics from his results on applying the
calculus of variations to mechanics.
Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (March 23, 1749, Beaumont-en-Auge, Normandy – March 5, 1827, Paris)
was a French mathematician and astronomer who put the final capstone on mathematical astronomy by
summarizing and extending the work of his predecessors in his five volume Mécanique Céleste (Celestial
Mechanics) (1799-1825). This masterpiece translated the geometrical study of mechanics used by Isaac Newton
to one based on calculus, known as physical mechanics [1].
He is also the discoverer of Laplace's equation. Although the Laplace transform is named in honor of Laplace,
who used the transform in his work on probability theory, the transform was discovered originally by Leonhard
Euler, the prolific eighteenth-century Swiss mathematician. The Laplace transform appears in all branches of
mathematical physics — a field he took a leading role in forming. The Laplacian differential operator, much reliedupon in applied mathematics, is likewise named after him.
He became count of the Empire in 1806 and was named a marquis in 1817 after the restoration of the Bourbons.
Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace
French mathematician & astronomer
Laplace spent much of his life working on mathematical
astronomy that culminated in his masterpiece on the proof of
the dynamic stability of the solar system with the assumption
that it consists of a collection of rigid bodies moving in a
vacuum. He independently formulated the nebular hypothesis
and was one of the first scientists to postulate the existence
of black holes and the notion of gravitational collapse.
Born
March 23, 1749
Beaumont-en-Auge, Normandy
Died
March 5, 1827
Paris, France
Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss
Carl Friedrich Gauss (Gauß) (help·info) (30 April 1777 – 23 February 1855) was a German
mathematician and scientist of profound genius who contributed significantly to many fields,
including number theory, analysis, differential geometry, geodesy, magnetism, astronomy and
optics. Sometimes known as "the prince of mathematicians" and "greatest mathematician since
antiquity", Gauss had a remarkable influence in many fields of mathematics and science and is
ranked among one of history's most influential mathematicians.
Gauss was a child prodigy, of whom there are many anecdotes pertaining to his astounding
precocity while a mere toddler, and made his first ground-breaking mathematical discoveries while
still a teenager. He completed Disquisitiones Arithmeticae, his magnum opus, at the age of twentyone (1798), though it would not be published until 1801. This work was fundamental in
consolidating number theory as a discipline and has shaped the field to the present day.
Gauss also made important contributions to number theory with his 1801 book Disquisitiones
Arithmeticae, which contained a clean presentation of modular arithmetic and the first proof of the
Born 30 April 1777
law of quadratic reciprocity. In that same year, Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the
Brunswick, Germany planetoid Ceres, but could only watch it for a few days. Gauss predicted correctly the position at
which it could be found again, and it was rediscovered by Franz Xaver von Zach on December 31,
1801 in Gotha, and one day later by Heinrich Olbers in Bremen. Zach noted that "without the
Died 23 February 1855
Göttingen, Hanover, intelligent work and calculations of Doctor Gauss we might not have found Ceres again." Though
Gauss had up to this point been supported by the stipend from the Duke, he doubted the security
Germany
of this arrangement, and also did not believe pure mathematics to be important enough to deserve
support. Thus he sought a position in astronomy, and in 1807 was appointed Professor of
Astronomy and Director of the astronomical observatory in Göttingen, a post he held for the remainder of his life.
The discovery of Ceres by Piazzi on January 1, 1801 led Gauss to his work on a theory of the motion of planetoids disturbed by large
planets, eventually published in 1809 under the name Theoria motus corporum coelestium in sectionibus conicis solem ambientum
(theory of motion of the celestial bodies moving in conic sections around the sun). Piazzi had only been able to track Ceres for a
couple of months, following it for three degrees across the night sky. Then it disappeared temporarily behind the glare of the Sun.
Several months later, when Ceres should have reappeared, Piazzi couldn't locate it: the mathematical tools of the time weren't able
to extrapolate a position from such a scant amount of data – three degrees represent less than 1% of the total orbit.
Gauss, who was 23 at the time, heard about the problem and tackled it head-on. After three months of intense work, he predicted a
position for Ceres in December 1801 – just about a year after its first sighting – and this turned out to be accurate within a halfdegree. In the process, he so streamlined the cumbersome mathematics of 18th century orbital prediction that his work – published a
few years later as Theory of Celestial Movement – remains a cornerstone of astronomical computation. It introduced the gaussian
gravitational constant, and contained an influential treatment of the method of least squares, a procedure used in all sciences to this
Johann Daniel Titius
Johann Elert Bode
It was proposed in 1766 by Johann Daniel Titius and "published" without attribution in 1772 by the director of the Berlin
Observatory, Johann Elert Bode, thus the name. However, some sources say it was first proposed by Christian Wolff in
1724[citation needed].
As originally stated by Titius, the "law" relates the semi-major axis, a, of each planet outward from the sun in units such that
the Earth's semi-major axis = 10, with
a=n+4
where n = 0, 3, 6, 12, 24, 48 ..., with each value of n > 3 twice the previous value; the resulting values can be divided by 10
to convert them into astronomical units (AU). For the outer planets, each planet is 'predicted' to be roughly twice as far away
from the Sun as the next inner object.
When originally published, the law was approximately satisfied by all the known planets — Mercury through Saturn — with a
gap between the fourth and fifth planets. It was regarded as interesting, but of no great importance until the discovery of
Uranus in 1781 which happens to fit neatly into the series. Based on this discovery, Bode urged a search for a fifth planet.
Ceres, the largest of the asteroids in the asteroid belt, was found at the predicted position of the fifth planet. Bode's law was
then widely accepted until Neptune was discovered in 1846 and found not to satisfy it. Simultaneously, the large number of
known asteroids in the belt resulted in Ceres no longer being considered a planet. It is now understood that no planet could
have formed in the belt, due to the gravitational influence of Jupiter.
The discovery of Pluto in 1930 confounded the issue still further. While nowhere near its position as predicted by Bode's law,
it was roughly at the position the law had predicted for Neptune. However, the subsequent discovery of the Kuiper belt, and
in particular of the object Eris, which is larger than Pluto yet does not fit Bode's law, have further discredited the formula
moot in the eyes of astronomers.
Titius – Bode rule
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Theoretical explanations
There is no solid theoretical explanation of the Titius-Bode law,
but it is likely a combination of orbital resonance and shortage of
degrees of freedom: any stable planetary system has a high
probability of satisfying a Titius-Bode-type relationship. Because
of this, it has been called a "rule" rather than a "law".
Astrophysicist Alan Boss states that it is just a coincidence. The
planetary science journal Icarus no longer accepts papers
attempting to provide 'improved' versions of the law. (Boss
2006:70).
Orbital resonance from major orbiting bodies creates regions
around the Sun that are free of long-term stable orbits. Results
from simulations of planetary formation support the idea that a
randomly chosen stable planetary system will likely statisfy a
Titius-Bode law.
Dubrulle and Graner[1][2] have shown that power-law distance
rules can be a consequence of collapsing-cloud models of
planetary systems possessing two symmetries: rotational
invariance (the cloud and its contents are axially symmetric) and
scale invariance (the cloud and its contents look the same on all
length scales), the latter being a feature of many phenomena
considered to play a role in planetary formation, such as
turbulence.
There are a decidedly limited number of systems on which
Bode's law can be tested. Two of the solar planets have a
number of large moons that appear possibly to have been
created by a process similar to that which created the planets
themselves. The four large satellites of Jupiter plus the largest
inner satellite — Amalthea — adhere to a regular, but non-Bode,
spacing with the four innermost locked into orbital periods that
are each twice that of the next inner satellite. The large moons
of Uranus have a regular, but non-Bode, spacing. [1]
Recent discoveries of extrasolar planetary systems do not yet
provide enough data to test whether similar rules apply to other
solar systems.
k
T-B rule distance
Real distance
Planet
Mercury
0
0.4
0.39
Venus
1
0.7
0.72
Earth
2
1.0
1.00
Mars
4
1.6
1.52
(Ceres)
8
2.8
2.77
Jupiter
16
5.2
5.20
Saturn
32
10.0
9.54
Uranus
64
19.6
19.2
Neptune
128
38.8
30.06
256
77.2
39.44
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(Pluto)
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Ceres was considered a planet from 1801 until the 1860's. Pluto was
generally considered a planet from 1930 to 2006. The IAU had a proposal
in late August 2006 which included Ceres as a planet, but this resolution
was modified before its ratification. The modification gave both Ceres and
Pluto the status of "dwarf planet".
Uranus
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The seventh most distant planet from the Sun, discovered by
William Herschel in 1781. It is bluish green because of methane in
the atmosphere. In fact the C:H ratio is 30 to 40 time the solar value.
Its atmosphere is composed of hydrogen and helium, its mantle is
water and ammonia ice, and its core is rocky. Uranus has 9 faint
rings. Ten new satellites were discovered by Voyager 2 when it flew
by in 1985. The rings of Uranus are designated 1986U2R, 6, 5, 4, ,
, , , , 1986U1R, and . Enhanced Voyager 2 images of the ring
found it to break up into 5 major arcs of roughly equal length.
Uranus has 17 known moons: Ariel, Belinda, Bianca, Cordelia,
Cressida, Desdemona, Juliet, Miranda, Oberon Ophelia, Portia,
Puck, Rosalind, Titania, and Umbriel. Two distant satellites in nonequatorial orbits were discovered by B. Gladman, P. Nicholson,
J. A. Burns, and J. J. Kavelaars using the Palomar 5-meter
telescope. The discovery was announced on Oct. 31, 1997.
William Herschel
He was born Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel in Hanover, Germany, as one of ten children (of
which four died very young). In 1755 the Hanoverian Guards regiment in whose band William
and his brother Jacob were engaged was ordered to England. At the time, the crowns of
England and Hanover were united under George II. He learned English quickly and, at age
nineteen, he changed his name to Frederick William Herschel.
He became a successful music teacher and bandleader, played the violin, the oboe and, later,
the organ. He composed numerous musical works, including 24 symphonies and many
concertos, as well as some church music. His music is largely forgotten today. After a career
leading orchestras in Newcastle, Leeds and Halifax, he became organist of the Octagon
Chapel, Bath, in which town he was also Director of Public Concerts. His sister Caroline came
to England and lived with him.
His music led him to interest in mathematics, and hence to astronomy. This grew stronger after
1773, and he built some telescopes and made the acquaintance of Nevil Maskelyne. He
observed the Moon, measuring the heights of lunar mountains, and also worked on a catalog o
double stars.
The turning point in his life was March 13, 1781, while residing at 19 New King Street, Bath,
when he discovered Uranus. This made him famous and enabled him to turn to astronomy fulltime. Naming the new planet Georgium Sidus, Latin for "George's Star", in honour of King
George III also brought him favour (the name didn't stick — and until the name 'Uranus' was
adopted the planet was known in France, where reference to the English king was to be
avoided if possible, as 'Herschel'). That same year, Herschel was awarded the Copley Medal
and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1782, he was appointed "The King’s
Astronomer" and he and his sister subsequently moved to Datchet (then in Buckinghamshire
but now in Berkshire) on August 1, 1782. He continued his work as a telescope maker, selling a
number of them to other astronomers.
In 1783 he gave Caroline a telescope and she began to make astronomical discoveries in her
own right, particularly comets. Caroline also served as his full-time assistant, taking notes while
he observed at the telescope.
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The 40 foot telescope
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During the course of his career, he constructed more than four hundred
telescopes. The largest and most famous of these was a reflecting telescope with
a 40 ft (12 m) focal length and an aperture 49½ inches (126 cm) in diameter. On
August 28, 1789, his first night of observation using this instrument, he discovered
a new moon of Saturn. A second moon followed within the first month of
observation. The 40 ft telescope proved very cumbersome, however, and most of
his observations were done with a smaller telescope of 20 ft (6.1 m) focal length.
Herschel discovered that unfilled telescope apertures can be used to obtain high
angular resolution something which became the essential basis for interferometric
imaging in astronomy (in particular Aperture Masking Interferometry and
hypertelescopes).
William and Mary had one child, John, born at Observatory House on March 7,
1792. In 1816, William was made a Knight of the Royal Guelphic Order by the
Prince Regent and was thus entitled to style himself Sir. He helped to found the
Astronomical Society of London in 1820, which in 1831 received a royal charter
and became the Royal Astronomical Society.
On August 25, 1822, Herschel died at Observatory House, Slough, and is buried at
nearby St Laurence's Church, Upton.
His son John Herschel also became a famous astronomer. One of William's
brothers, Alexander, moved permanently to England, near Caroline and William.
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Other astronomical work
In his later career, Herschel discovered two satellites of Saturn, Mimas and Enceladus; as well as two satellites of Uranus,
Titania and Oberon. He did not give these satellites their names; rather, they were named by his son John in 1847 and 1852,
respectively, well after his death.
He worked on creating an extensive catalog of nebulae. He continued to work on double stars, and was the first to discover
that most double stars are not mere optical doubles as had been supposed previously, but are true binary stars, thus providing
the first proof that Newton's laws of gravitation apply outside the solar system.
He also discovered infrared radiation (ca. 1800).
From studying the proper motion of stars, he was the first to realize that the solar system is moving through space, and he
determined the approximate direction of that movement. He also studied the structure of the Milky Way and concluded that it
was in the shape of a disk.
He also coined the word "asteroid", meaning star-like (from the Greek asteroeides, aster "star" + -eidos "form, shape"), in
1802 (shortly after Olbers discovered the second minor planet, 2 Pallas, in late March of the same year), to describe the starlike appearance of the small moons of the giant planets and of the minor planets; the planets all show discs, by comparison.
Despite his numerous important scientific discoveries, Herschel was not averse to wild speculation. In particular, he believed
every planet was inhabited, even the Sun: he believed that the Sun had a cool, solid surface protected from its hot
atmosphere by an opaque layer of cloud, and that a race of beings adapted to their strange environment lived there.
Neptun
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The planet having the second greatest average distance from the
Sun. It was discovered by Adams and Le Verrier in 1846. It is
bluish green and has an atmosphere of hydrogen and helium, an icy
mantle, and a rocky core. Neptune emits more energy than it
receives from the Sun. It was be visited by Voyager 2 in Aug. 1989,
which discovered six new satellites and a set of ring arcs. Neptune
is the windiest planet in the solar system, with wind speeds of 600 m
s-1 ( Mach 1 at 59 K). The rings of Neptune are designated
1989N3R, 1989N2R, 1989N4R, and 1989N1R.
Although the average orbital distance of Neptune is less than that of
Pluto, during certain periods, it is actually farther from the Sun than
Pluto.
Adams, John Couch (18191892)
Airy, George (1801-1892)
English astronomer who also developed a
procedure for numerical integration of
differential equations. He mathematically
predicted the location of Neptune
in
1846, independently of Le Verrier. Adams'
calculations, however, were ignored by
Airy until after Le Verrier had published
his own prediction.
English astronomer and mathematician who was appointed
Astronomer Royal and modernized the Greenwich
Observatory. Airy is best known for his failure to follow up
Adams' calculations, which would have led to the discovery
of Neptune.
Le Verrier, Urbain (1811-1877)
French mathematician who co-discovered
Neptune
in 1846 with Adams. –
opazovali na Berlinskem observatoriju.
Iskal Vulkan, opazoval gibanje Merkurja –
perihelij – Einsteinova teorija relativnosti
Pluton
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The smallest of the nine planets, Pluto also has the largest average distance
from the Sun. Pluto's orbit is highly inclined to the ecliptic plane. Its orbit is also
highly elliptical, bringing it closer to the Sun than Neptune from Feb. 7, 1979 to
Feb. 10, 1999. Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh (Clyde William
Tombaugh (February 4, 1906 – January 17, 1997) was an American
astronomer ) on Feb. 10, 1930, but not announced until March 13. For a
personal account of the extent of this survey, see Sky & Telescope (Apr. 1991).
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At 43 K, Pluto's surface consists of frozen methane, ammonia, and water.
Mutual occultation of Pluto and its only moon Charon occurred from Dec. 1984
to Sept. 23, 1990. The alignment, in which Charon's 6.39 day orbit appears
edge-on from the earth, only happens every 124 years. A discussion of the
occultations can be found in Sky & Telescope (Jan. 1991, p. 13) and Sky &
Telescope (Sept. 1987). The first image resolving Pluto and Charon was taken
by the Hubble Space Telescope. In the image appearing on Sky & Telescope
(Jan. 1991, p. 16), the bodies are separated by 0.9".
Friedrich Bessel
prvi izmeril razdaljo do zvezde l. 1838
Friedrich Bessel
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Born
July 22, 1784
Minden, Westphalia, now Germany
Died
March 17, 1846
Königsberg, Prussia, now Kaliningrad, Russia
Residence
Nationality
Field
Institution
Alma Mater
Prussia
German
Mathematics and Astronomy
University of Berlin
Georg-August University
Doctoral Advisor
Carl Friedrich Gauss
Doctoral Students
Heinrich Scherk
Known for
Bessel functions
Notable Prizes
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society (1829 & 1841)
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (July 22, 1784 – March 17, 1846) was a German
mathematician, astronomer, and systematizer of the Bessel functions (which were
discovered by Daniel Bernoulli). He was born in Minden, Westphalia and died of
cancer in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia). Bessel was a contemporary of Carl
Gauss, also a mathematician and astronomer.
Bessel was the son of a civil servant, and at the age of 14 he was apprenticed to the
import-export concern Kulenkamp. He shortly became an accountant for them, and the
business' reliance on cargo ships led him to turn his mathematical skills to problems in
navigation. This in turn led to an interest in astronomy as a way of determining
longitude.
He came to the attention of a major figure of German astronomy at the time, Heinrich
Wilhelm Olbers, by producing a refinement on the orbital calculations for Halley's
Comet. Within two years he had left Kulenkamp and become an assistant at Lilienthal
Observatory near Bremen, Germany. There he worked on James Bradley's stellar
observations to produce precise positions for some 3222 stars.
This work attracted considerable attention, and at the age of 26 he was appointed
director of the Königsberg Observatory by Frederick William III of Prussia. There he
published tables of atmospheric refraction based on Bradley's observations, which
won him the Lalande Prize from the Institut de France. On this base, he was able to
pin down the position of over 50,000 stars during his time at Königsberg.
With this work under his belt, Bessel was able to achieve the feat for which he is best
remembered today: he is credited with being the first to use parallax in calculating the
distance to a star. Astronomers had believed for some time that parallax would provide
the first accurate measurement of interstellar distances -- in fact, the 1830s housed a
fierce competition between astronomers to be the first to accurately measure a stellar
parallax. In 1838 Bessel won the "race", announcing that 61 Cygni had a parallax of
0.314 arcseconds; which, given the diameter of the Earth's orbit, indicated that the star
was ~3 parsecs away. Hipparcos experiment has now calculated the parallax at
0.28547 arcseconds. He narrowly beat Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve and Thomas
Henderson, who measured the parallaxes of Vega and Alpha Centauri in the same
year.
As well as helping determine the parallax of 61 Cygni, Bessel's precise measurements
allowed him to notice deviations in the motions of Sirius and Procyon, which he
deduced must be caused by the gravitational attraction of unseen companions. His
announcement of Sirius' "dark companion" in 1844 was the first correct claim of a
previously unobserved companion by positional measurement, and eventually led to
the discovery of Sirius B.
Despite lacking a university education, Bessel was a major figure in astronomy during
his lifetime. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society, and the largest crater in the
moon's Mare Serenitatis was named after him.
He won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1841. The asteroid 1552
Bessel was named in his honour.
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